Starting a new high school has been an experience of collaboration and creativity, collegiality and intellectual challenge like none other in my life. When Stella, a student in my Humanities 10 class, asked me to be adviser for the new Journalism Club she wanted to form, I think I didn't realize how she was changing my life. Of course I had thought of teaching Journalism, but the class had not been offered in year one for lack of enrollment. So, a Club? We did it. And the students and Jay, an old friend with valuable skills in the field, and I produced the first ever American Canyon High School student newspaper, "Wolf Prints" in February of 2011. We will produce the 2nd edition (and final for our first year) later this month. AND I'll be attending the ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute at Arizona State University Cronkite School in June.

Next year?  We'll see, but right now the budget will not allow me to teach a class in Journalism, though I have 17 students enrolled. I am still hoping, but I am also formulating a way to do more teaching in the club format.